THEME DETAILS

Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.

UNLIMITED SKINS

This theme allows you to build your own custom skin just by selecting your favorite colors from the admin panel with a color picker. Additionally, there are 32 custom patterns that you can choose between for the body. You can heck out the settings available in the admin panel here

POWERFUL ADMIN

Dandelion theme has very powerful admin settings included, so that it can satisfy all different needs without having to change any code. You can very easily change between page layouts, theme styles, sliders and set the theme content. You can have a look at the Admin Settings section on the demo, where some of the admin settings are displayed as screenshots.

RESPONSIVE DESIGN

The theme is responsive, so that it fits and looks great on different devices – desktop, mobile phones and tablets. When testing the demo, please make sure to remove the ThemeForest frame on the top in order to see how the responsive layout works.

4 JQUERY SLIDERS (UNLIMITED USAGE)

This theme includes not only a really cool Thumbnail Slider, which is great for the easy showcasing of a large number of images, but also a Nivo slider which allows for a wide variety transition effects and an Accordion slider which is very suitable for presenting more information. Also, in version 2.6.7 of the theme we have included a new Content slider which is great for presenting more content with the images. Images are easily added or removed, or the main slider settings changed, via the admin panel.
Additionally, you can use each of the sliders on different pages with different image sets.

3 FLEXIBLE PORTFOLIO GALLERIES (UNLIMITED NUMBER OF PAGES)

Dandelion has 3 impressive portfolio galleries – portfolio showcase which is great for presenting projects with more details; main gallery with pagination, category filter and lightbox preview and a gallery with item descriptions. All the galleries have been created with a great functionality, so that the content is very easy to change and maintain. You also have the option to choose between 2, 3 and 4 column layouts.

DOCUMENTATION INCLUDED

The theme comes with a detailed documentation, which includes examples, screenshots and all the main instructions you will need to customize your site.

CONTENT EDITOR

Dandelion supports the WordPress classic editor only and a major part of its elements rely on the classic editor. If you wish to use Gutenberg, you can enable it from the theme options panel, however please keep in mind that some of the theme elements might not function properly,
as they were designed to be added via the Classic Editor. You can learn more in this article.

Unlimited slider usage – you can set different sets of images to different pages

Image Upload functionality included

Easy to sort, edit and delete existing images

Main slider settings can be changed from admin panel

Automatic image crop option

Portfolio Showcase Template

Portfolio Gallery template

Unlimited portfolio page number

2,3 and 4 column layout

Category filter (can be hidden)

Option to set item descriptions

Option to set different clicking action to each item – you can select between opening an image/video with lightbox, opening a custom link, opening item’s main content or doing nothing

Option to set custom item order

Pagination enabled – you can set the number of items per page

Separate portfolio custom types

WordPress 3.0 Custom Menu Support

24 Shortcodes included

AJAX contact form with CAPTCHA functionality

Widgetized Footer – can be easily disabled

Comments with reply functionality

Multi level drop-down menu

Lost of styled elements included

Page Layouts

Right Sidebar

Left Sidebar

Full Width

Bonus widget included – portfolio posts loader

Detailed documentation included

PSD Files included

Works and looks similar in all major browsers: Internet Exlorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome

Updates

Version 3.1.7:
- Preparation for WordPress 5.0: Make the classic editor to be enabled by default, once WordPress 5.0 is released. Dandelion supports the classic editor only and a major part of its elements rely on the classic editor. You can learn more in this article.
- Load the Vimeo and YouTube video players in lightbox via https.

Version 3.1.6:
- Add support for the WordPress 4.9.6 comment form cookie checkbox

Version 3.1.5:
- Updated the contact form reCAPTCHA widget to version 2, since version 1 of the reCAPTCHA API is now deprecated and will be shut down in March 2018. This requires generating new API keys – please refer to the Contact Form Page section of the documentation for more details.
- Implemented support for the upcoming gallery sidebar widget in WordPress 4.9
- General code improvements and minor bug fixes

Version 3.1.4:
- Removed the Envato Toolkit Library that handles automatic updates due to the retirement of the old Envato API (that Envato Toolkit uses). Implemented a script to install the Envato Market Plugin, which is the new tool to install automatic updates
from the dashboard. For more information please refer to the Updates section of the documentation.
- Minor bug fixes

Version 3.0.0:
- Dandelion is now responsive
- Redesign of the Pexeto options panel
- Replaced most of the image resizing functionality of Timthumb with the BFI Thumb script
- Improved the gallery pagination animation
- Content slider: the slider height now changes automatically depending on the current slide content height
- Enabled touch swipe events in some sections (e.g. sliders, showcase pagination)
- Some general improvements and small bug fixes (more info in the “Updates” section of the documentation

Version 2.9.1:
- Fixed an issue with the Gallery post format – the content after the “More” separator was displayed on the blog page

Version 2.9.0:
- WordPress Post Format support – added support for Gallery, Video, Aside and Quote post formats, you can see some examples on the Blog page
- Updated the Nivo slider to the latest version
- WooCommerce improvements – added a custom woocommerce template for some layout and style improvements
- General code improvements and minor bug fixes

Version 2.8.2:
- WordPress 3.7 Update: in this update WordPress removed the titles added to the WordPress Gallery (or as we call it Quick Gallery) items and therefore the titles are not displayed in the lightbox preview. We have applied some filters to the generated markup so that the titles are displayed in the lightbox.
- Fixed an issue with the update notification functionality not adding a notification
in the admin bar when a minor update is available (it used to add it to the Dashboard menu only)
- Other minor bug fixes and code improvements

Version 2.8.1:
- Fixed a style issue with the dialogs in the admin on WordPress 3.6
- Other minor code improvements and modifications

Version 2.8.0:
- Improvements for child theme support – the previous releases of the theme included child theme support for all the main styles and all the page templates. In this update we have also included child theme support for all the main functions used in the theme
- Translation : apart of the default Translation section that can be used for translating the built into the theme words, we have also included a .po file for those words that can be used for additional languages
- Added a services boxes shortcode for inserting more services boxes in different pages
- Added support for HTML tags in the sliders descriptions
- Added an option to select the way the thumbnails will be cropped (top, bottom, left, right, center) in the Portfolio Gallery and Portfolio Showcase page
- Updated Timthumb to the latest version
- Updated the instructions in the documentation regarding the latest WordPress 3.5 changes
- Included updated versions of the Twitter Widget Pro and WP-PageNavi plugins
- Code improvements and some small issue fixes

Version 2.7.0:
- Implemented Google Fonts options
- Implemented an Automatic Theme Update functionality
- Fixed a pagination issue in the blog that was raised with the new WordPress 3.4

Version 2.6.8:
-Embedded a CAPTCHA functionality (by using the reCAPTCHA service) in the contact form page for preventing spam emails from crawling robots
-Added a Lightbox Options section in the Options panel, so you can change the main lightbox styling and functionality options
-Included an upload favicon option in the Options panel
-Updated Timthumb to the latest version available: 2.8.10
-Updated the PrettyPhoto Lightbox plugin to the latest version available: 3.1.4

Version 2.6.7:
-Added a new image slider – Content Slider
-Updated Timthumb to the latest version available (2.8.2)
-Fixed a small issue with the Portfolio Posts Loader – displaying “undefined” text below the image
-Added a beginners section in the documentation
-Did some other small improvements

Version 2.6.6:
-Updated Timthumb to the latest version available (2.8)
-Implemented an update notification functionality

Version 2.6.5:
- Updated Timthumb (the image resizing script) to the latest version (1.34) – a security vulnerability was found regarding this script and version 1.34 fixes this vulnerability.

Version 2.6.4:
- Improved the Thumbnail Slider functionality when browser tab is minimized for jQuery 1.6

Version 2.6.3:
- Fixed some incompatibilities that may occur in the next WordPress version (3.2) regarding the newly included jQuery 1.6
- Updated the Nivo slider to latest version – more sliding animations included

Version 2.6.2:
-Added custom pattern field with upload functionality
-Added a new sidebar widget – Pexeto’s posts loader (displays the latest blog posts within the sidebar with small thumbnails)
-Improved the Thumbnail slider initial loading
-Improved the contact form code
-Improved the Showcase functionality
-Some other small issues fixed
-Code improvements